Not surprising at all.  I do the same thing.  I am also manually triaging
all Office attachments (though that is a major pain and will go away pretty
soon when we add another layer of automated defense).

On Wed, Dec 9, 2015 at 1:08 PM, Mark Gottschalk <[email protected]> wrote:

> We quarantine all emails with html attachments (such as the secure Cisco
> email), since the majority (90%+) we see are trojans or phishing.  Same for
> zip files in email, believe it or not.  Those are easily topping 99.9%
> trojans (thousands received in the past week).  Same for dozens of more
> obscure attachment types.  Recipients get a quarantine notification if the
> originating mail server is not also a known spam source.  If the email is
> legit and needed, they request it being released.  I see zero to two zip
> file recovery requests a week, tops.
>
> I don't trust an antivirus system enough to allow users to decide whether
> or not to open attachment types that are overwhelmingly used maliciously in
> email.  But, I get the need for occasional, easy-to-use secure messaging
> and the tradeoff between irritation and security.
>
> -- Mark
>
>
>
>
> From:        David McSpadden <[email protected]>
> To:        "[email protected]" <[email protected]>
> Date:        12/09/2015 09:04 AM
> Subject:        RE: [NTSysADM] Encry pting File Attachments
> Sent by:        [email protected]
> ------------------------------
>
>
>
> Well,
> It is better than seeing my members data on FoxNews I suppose.
> But yeah, hate it from time to time.
>
>
> *From:* [email protected] [
> mailto:[email protected] <[email protected]>] *On
> Behalf Of *Gavin Wilby
> * Sent:* Wednesday, December 9, 2015 12:01 PM
> * To:* '[email protected]' <[email protected]>
> * Subject:* RE: [NTSysADM] Encry pting File Attachments
>
> J
>
> That’s a very annoying feature you have.
>
> *Gavin Wilby*
> *IT Support Engineer*
>
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